“I came away thinking O’Donnell didn’t understand what was going on during that part of the debate.”
Exactly, Coons correctly identified and recited nearly verbatim the portion of the First Amendment upon which liberals base their argument that a strict separation must be maintained between the workings of government and the symbols, values and precepts of particular religons. He didn’t say that the Constitution included the words separation of church and state. O’Donnell, apparently cluesless, then mockingly replied something to the effect of “so you really think that is in there?”, suggesting that she had caught Coons stating that the words separation of church and state actually are in the Constitution when he said nothing of the sort. The law students in the audience, well aware of the legal arguments employed in the relevant Supreme Court cases, could only laugh at Miss “I am You” O’Donnell’s “gotcha” moment.
Look, I disagree with Coons’s position on this issue, but he made the appropriate debating point in this argument. O’Donnell, so far as I can tell, was out to lunch. I hope she pulls off an upset, we need her vote when the chairmanships and staff budgets in the Senate are voted on, but even if she does she will be an embarrassment to our cause. She’s not ready for prime time.
Yes...that was the part where she was wrong.
I was shocked when I heard the students laugh like they thought that was in the First Amendment...it was after she asked the first time that Coons recited his version of the Establishment clause which btw is not where the “Wall” idea is derived from anyhow.
And he could not name any other right(5 total) enumerated in the First and called out to the moderator to get her off him since he had no clue.
Did you hear the whole exchange? The media has of course held back the context.
The whole wall idea was created in the 1940s by Hugo Black to stymie Catholics...in his view.
It is not in the Constitution.
Now...could Christine have more presence...oh hell yes....I woulda killed Coons myself but what truly scares me most is the bias and ignorance of the law student and it's faculty and the media's blatant propaganda.
I was so pissed I sent this letter to all the professors there who teach in that field at Widener.
“I hope you and other faculty at Widener take the time in the upcoming days to inform your law school students that the Separation of Church and State is in fact NOT in the First Amendment and it's Establishment Clause and that it is a relatively new idea that did not become “law” until by fiat with Everson in the 1940s written by former Ku Klux Klansmen Hugo Black speaking for the majority and was drawn from some old letters by Jefferson written to New England Baptists to assure them he would protect their right to practice their faith, not to protect the State from them.
It is a sad commentary when the media propagates this myth to their own biased ends and your students go along with the same folly.
Law without truthful historical precedence is hollow.
I was an idealist in my youth too and like many of your students I was arguably left of center but the truth is undeniable and O'Donnell was correct and Coons was ambiguous and nor could he answer what were the five freedoms granted in the First Amendment btw. The media declines to show that part of the debate and his lifeline to the moderator.
God bless you and good luck.
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Ole Miss 1980”